Metaverse Week

Making sense of the new virtual reality. Presented by Nuvei.

Metaverse Week

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How the Metaverse Could Be a Game-Changer for NFT Gaming

Rather than letting players port weapons or powers between games, non-fungible tokens will more likely serve as building blocks for new games and virtual worlds. This piece is part of CoinDesk's Metaverse Week.

(Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Opinion

The Metaverse Will Make Gamers of Us All

Fundamentally, the "metaverse" is a game – but one with real consequences and opportunities. This article is part of "Metaverse Week."

(Stormseeker/Unsplash)

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Metaverse Real Estate – Next Big Thing or Next Big Boondoggle?

Highly prized plots of land are fetching fortunes on the biggest platforms. How do the economics of metaverse real estate stack up?

(Melody Wang/CoinDesk)

Finance

Diana Sinclair: People Aren’t 'Ready to Hear' About Inequities in the Metaverse

Web 3 can open up opportunities for marginalized groups, but it's not a silver bullet, says one leading NFT artist.

Diana Sinclair (CoinDesk)

Finance

Pierina Merino: Rethinking Social Media for the Metaverse

Meet the 30-year-old Venezuelan founder of FlickPlay, a hot social metaverse platform. Merino will appear at CoinDesk's Consensus 2022 festival.

(Pierina Merino)

Finance

Michael Wagner: Building a Virtual Nation-State in the Metaverse

Meet the co-founder of Star Atlas, one of the most ambitious games in blockchain. You just have to get through the security first.

(Michael Wagner/modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Mortgages: How You Can Buy a House Using a Crypto-Backed Loan

Digital asset-backed mortgages let house buyers use their crypto holdings as collateral.

Crypto mortgages let the crypto rich leverage their cryptocurrency holdings to buy real estate without cashing out (Unspash, modified by CoinDesk).

Finance

Cherie Hu on Music and the Metaverse

How might concerts work in the metaverse? And what even is the metaverse, anyway? Ahead of her panel at CoinDesk’s Consensus festival, Water & Music founder Cherie Hu pins it down.

(Cherie Hu modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Finance

Lindsey McInerney: The Metaverse and the 'DIC Punch'

On building Stoner Cats and Gimmicks NFT franchises.

(Lindsey McInerney, modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)

Finance

Matthew Ball: Metaverse Man

Will we call it the metaverse, and what will we do there? A leading expert weighs in.

(Matthew Ball, modified by Kevin Ross/CoinDesk)